Staff Software Engineer, Backend (PAM)

Okta•Toronto, ON

67d•Onsite

About The Position

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Team Ever wonder how large organizations make sure the right people can access their most critical systems? That's the problem we solve. The Okta Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an identity-centric approach to a common and critical privileged access use case. Our elegant Zero Trust architecture is purpose-built for the modern cloud and helps customers solve challenging security and operations pain points at scale. Our team builds the infrastructure that controls who can reach sensitive servers, databases, and cloud resources, grants access only when it's needed. It is the security layer between people (and non-human-interfaces) and the systems they need to do their jobs. The Role We're looking for a Staff Backend Software Engineer who wants to work on hard problems: distributed systems and building software where getting it right really matters. You'll ship code that protects real infrastructure for real organizations. You’ll build foundations that multiple feature teams depend on. When you make something faster, more reliable, or easier to use, it multiplies across the entire product. This is a role for someone who likes thinking about how systems fit together. You'll need strong opinions about what makes a good abstraction, and the flexibility to evolve those abstractions as the product grows.

Requirements

8+ years experience as a software engineer with a strong background in Golang (preferred)
Experience working with relational databases like PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS technologies
Ability to design database models and backend APIs
Experience working with cloud services like Caching, Queues, NoSQL Databases etc.
Experience working with cloud providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure
Thrive in a collaborative environment built on end-to-end ownership
Love thinking about distributed systems, and the reliability, availability, and performance implications of the decisions made in their design
Enjoy deep-diving into production metrics, and familiarity with monitoring tools like Splunk, DataDog etc.
Think in terms of systems, services, and APIs.
8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of technical leadership and increasing scope.
Experience working with production systems.
Bachelors in CS, or equivalent
Must be able to work onsite from our Toronto office.

Responsibilities

Be deeply involved in evolving the core architecture of PAM
Work in our product development teams to build scalable, composable components of our platform
Be responsible for designing and implementing scalable architecture patterns
Design and build APIs with OpenAPI Specification that customers rely on for access to production infrastructure
Work on backend systems written in Go
Participate in the rotational on-call activities with SRE and product development teams